... By Herbert Farjeon No Time for Comedy (Haymarket) SMART is the word for this play, which is as smart as they make them. As smart as Noel Coward, though it is by S. N. Behrman. As smart as Schiaparelli, though Diana Wynyard's costumes were de signed and executed by Paquin and Victor Stiebel. As smart, twice, thrice as smart, as the Haymarket Theatre, where it is being played. And the ...

... REMINISCENCES of theGREAT A mbassador Dodd's Diary Viscount Mersey's Memoirs John Buchan's Last JJovd -By Vernon Fane FROM 1933 to 1938 the United States Ambassador to Germany was Mr. William Dodd, formerly Professor of History in the University of Chicago, and the holder of a Doctor's degree from the University of Leipzig. Presi dent Roosevelt appointed him because he wanted for the post a ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THE most unusual film of this or many weeks past is VICTORY (Plaza), from the Joseph Conrad novel of ideals and adven ture in the sticky South Seas. It is pos sibly a little more unusual than the producers reckoned for, since they have done their best to make recognisable movie material of it the sort of film for which South of This, and East of That, and West of the ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE present century has produced few novelists capable of being com pared with the masters of the last; and the chief cause of this is, not that our novelists are necessarily inferior, but that their subject-matter lacks the stability essential for a work of fiction. The structure of society may not have changed' as much as some people think, but it has changed and is still ...

... (tA Hut By James Agate Good Material and Bad THE incommunicable mystery of the sea. I forget who said this. Perhaps nobody. Possibly it is merely the crystallisation of what all seafarers, and landfarers too, have felt about the world's changeless, ever-changing high-roads. Whatever its origin the phrase sums up the informing spirit of that great writer, Joseph Conrad, which is at once ...